I would like to thank Falcadore for the GREAT effort he has put in over he last 12months doing his Thread ..........HAPPY BIRTHDAY ,i know how much effort it takes to do into these daily posting and i thank you once again.

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1st Post 2004

Originally posted by Falcadore While perhaps a duplication of effort compared to "On This Day" thread, but perhaps just a well wishing appreviated version of it.

Also getting ahead of myself as it's only December 31, but New Years Eve and New Years Day are going to be extroadinarily busy for me....

On this the first day of 2004, I would like to wish the following a very special happy birthday.

The mysterious monikered 'Gimax', Italian Carlo Franchi is 66 today. If that is his real birthday. (1938)

British Group N Rallyist, Nial McShea is 31. (1973)

NASCARs Scott Riggs is 33 (1971)

French rally driver, Francois Chatriot is 52 (1952)

Australian Peugeot touring car racer Mike Fitzgerald is 49 (1955)

And Tasmanian touring car driver, Dean Crosswell will be 33. (1971)

A happy one to you all.

EDIT: After a chat with Richard/rdrcr he has kindly lent me his dates that I do not have, cheers very much kind sir, and thank you all who have posted on his, and also on Jim Thurmans thread. Here follows the additional dates with attributed author.

While it quickly became aparent with me other commitments that being able to do as much reasearch as I wanted to was going to be quickly beyond me (and continues to hinder efforts at doing any reasearch at all) I am personally glad that it got to the end of the year and would especially like to thank yourself, Richie and most especially rewind for their additions, and everyone who chipped in along the way. I've only recently acquired a bunch of new dates, and shudder at the thought of going back and manually inserting them throughout the year...

Just want to query Parry Thomas's date of birth as given in this thread and on the Motorsport Memorial site (16/4/1885). The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives a date of birth of 6th April 1884 and although I have not obtained a birth certificate the GRO index certainly seems to confirm the 1884 date. By the way he was born in Wrexham.

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to get my list of DOB and Natio complete of this years entries in the ALMS and Grand-Am.
I have covered quite alot, but still missing. Cannot find a good resource for those guys.
Since we have briliant coverage of the f1 and f3000 drivers (watn) and the zodiacal lists (they were a great help to cover a lot of drivers !)
Maybe i can help out too, all particpants in Daytona 24h. and ALMS 2005 that are not on the list, i have covered.
As well as a lot of ALMS drivers 1999-2004.
Its quite a big list to post, or is it not ?

Anyway, these are my 'gaps', hope someone can fill some in and i hope i can fill some in for you guys.

Birthdays of some Grand-Am racers can be found here:http://www.theracesi...04bdaymonth.cfmUnfortunately only those birth dates are visible which happen in the current month. So you have to watch that site once every month for the duration of a year to get the full picture.

And you should handle the dates with care and a certain amount of doubt. Or did you ever hear of a driver called Scott Pavett being born on 24 March 1960?

From that site I have the following dates (which are also hidden in the zodiacal lists) :Frank del Vecchio: 27 December 1944Jim Michaelian: 11 February 1943Doug Peterson: 11 November 1951George Robinson: 02 September 1959

From an unknown source I have birth date for a certain Bob Ward as 09 September 1947. But I cannot confirm whether or not he is the guy on your Gr-Am list.

There was a nice little doco on RPM today for Australias greatest motorsportsman, then who has started Australias second motorsport Dynasty (credit should be given to the Davisons first in that regard). The sense of humour is still sharp.

They also made mention of his sons, although the footage they used was all David or some footage of Audi R8s of which none of the three have driven. Two of the three should probably make the top ten Australian drivers that their father unquestionably tops. They also made mention of a fifth Brabham, the emergence of the still pre-teen Matthew Brabham through the karting ranks, and how much Sir Jack is enjoying watching Geoff endure the complaints from Matthew that Geoff once inflicted upon him.

Originally posted by ReWind And for Narain Karthikeyan I have 14 February 1976 instead of 14 January 1977. [/B]

Since his rise to Formula 1 I read everywhere that his birthday was in fact 14 January 1977. So I resigned to that, changed my mind and altered the corresponding entry in this thread.

Apart from that one some major updates to my zodiacal lists have been made with more than 400 new entries (and a few alterations & additions). A multitude of them I owe to Richie Jenkins’ „Where Are They Now?“ project . Luckily among the many many American Indy 500 starters there were also a bunch of Europeans which means I could steal the birth dates of people like Paul Bablot (20 Nov), André Boillot (08 Aug), Jean Chassagne (26 Jul) & Dario Resta (17 Aug). Another big thank you has to go to Leif Snellman & Adam Ferrington; once again I happily plundered the wonderful „Golden Era“ website . In response I can only offer the birth date of Casimiro de Oliveira (17 Apr 1917).

In chronological order the updated entries look like this (with some better known names in bold type) :

I have serious doubts about the birthdate you give, ReWind ... I must admit I have never had a day and month for his birth, but my Portuguese sources say born in 1907, in the "freguesia (broadly, district) Vieira do Minho", that is north-east of Porto, or Oporto, if you prefer ...
This is seconded by the fact Casimiro is known to be the older of the two racing de Oliveira brothers, and Manuel was born on December 12th, 1908 in Porto/Oporto ... (Only later, when he started his very successful career as a movie director, he styled himself as "Manoel" de Oliveira!)

Well, the first appearance of Casimiro I have on record is his 6th place in the 4th Circuito de Vila Real, with an SS1 - on June 17th, 1934 ... that would make him rather young, at least to the standards of the time!

More seriously, we should have a look on the 5th Portuguese Grand Prix (for Sports-cars) at Porto/Oporto in June 1955. It was, simehow, a sad day for Portuguese racing: In practice Vasco Sameiro crashed badly, injured himself, and destoryed his new Ferrari 500/750 0576MD - as far as I know, he did not race again. The story is, this fate of his old fellow Vasco had made Casimiro rather pensive, not the least because he had suffered his own serious crashes in 1953/54, and his brother was trying to convince him to give up racing finally. And sometimes fate is really cruel to fullfil certain bad feeling - in the race, Casimiro crashed his new Ferrari 750 0524M to destruction, and hurt himself so seriously never to race again ...

But how could he have then entered the Portuguese F1 GP in 1958? As far as I know, this entry was made by Suderia Centro Sud, and the driver was - at least in the French and English press - mentioned as "C. de Oliveira" ... According my Portuguese stuff, this was not Casimiro, but a completely unrelated fellow called Joaquim Correia de Oliveira, who seems to have come originally from Angola and have raced Porsches there and in his "motherland" Portugal ...

No ideas what all this means for the birthdate given at that homepage, except that more research is required ...

Unfortunately the monthly birthday lists on www.theracesite.com are not free of errors. A couple of names which were mentioned there are totally unknown to me. Since googling didn’t help either I restrained myself from putting them into my lists on this thread.

Maybe some TNFer knows who they are and in which way they are connected to motor racing.

The end has come sooner than expected. Because of the new 15 minutes editing limit I’m not able anymore to further update my “zodiacal lists”.

Alas, the administrator of this Bulletin Board hasn’t been helpful in this regard.

My request

I would like to be able to continue updating my "zodiacal lists" on the"Happy Birthday" thread on TNF now and then. Is it possible to PERMANENTLYdo away with the 15 minutes editing limit for the following 12 posts?

Meanwhile I found four of those in the entry list of the Grand-Am Cup Street Stock Series: Robert Moser, Matthew Robertson, Edward A. Schwarz & Shane Stephens (should be same man as Shayne Stevens).

On theracesite.com's August list there is a new mystery:Julien Roberston(sic!), 42 on 12 August 2005 (which means being born in 1963). Googling around I didn't find any person of that name. Maybe it is Julian Robertson (race engineer at Ganassi Racing)?

Like so often I have to thank Jim Thurman for showing me his findings on American drivers. But it is Walter Bäumer junior who deserves a very special appreciation because he made contact with the son of Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen and successfully asked him for his father’s birthday.

I was looking on the "SSDI" for an Walt May from Lansing, Michigan and stumbled over "Walter May", born 01 August 1906, died May 1972 (with "Lansing, Ingham, Michigan" given as Death Residence Localities).

Hidden in my last update is a tiny little gem (at least in terms of motor racing statistics) : Another centenarian!

Frenchman Louis Gérard gained some (posthumous) fame from the fact that he became more than 100 years old (dying at the age of 101 years & 24 days in 2000). A feat that was slightly bettered by German Ernst Henne who died at the age of 101 years & 90 days in 2005.

But now it seems the World’s longest living racing driver was neither of those but some American by the name of Reeves Dutton. If the dates from this page are correct it would mean Mr. Dutton died in 1988 at the age of 101 years & 150 days.

Outstanding job Reinhard You've done great work in getting many of the U.S. open wheel drivers (Sprint, Midget, Champ). What a list! I have been so busy with NASCAR drivers, that I had not delved much into the open wheel ranks. I have some, including a good list of Midget drivers, but not the number you've turned up

I guess this isn't a good time to mention I have one last update of NASCAR driver dates for you? :

No praise from me I’m afraid Reinhard. Firstly you haven’t corrected Parry Thomas’s birth date which should be 6th April 1884 and secondly there are just not enough Brooklands lady pilots listed! Here are a few who should be included:

Barbara Skinner, later Mrs John Bolster, born 25th March 1905, died 3rd January 1942.

Margaret Allen, born 26th June 1909, died 21st September 1998.

Elsie Wisdom, born 2nd March 1904, died 13th April 1972.

Dorothy Stanley-Turner, born 12th November 1916, died 8th July 1995

Eva Gordon-Simpson, born 30th July 1901, died 1980

Muriel Thompson, born 10th June 1875, died 3rd March 1939

Dame Ethel Locke-King, born 3rd June 1864, died 5th August 1956

Apologies if you have some of the above, but that’s another thing, it’s quite difficult to track down your updates on this thread. Any tips?

Seriously though congratulations on your fine work in compiling these useful lists.